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PIN CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED APR. is. 1916.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

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CHARLES P. VOGEL, 0F NEIIV YORK, N. Y.

PIN-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

Application filed April 15, 1916. Serial No. 91,430.

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES P. VOGEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, Glendale, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pin-Carrier, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to pin carriers, and an object thereof is to provide a simple and convenient pin carrier which will present the heads of the pins so that the same can be easily picked up.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pin carrier comprising a receptacle adapted to accommodate a large quantity of pins and from which the pins are fed to the holder proper of the carrier.

With the above and other objects in view, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my pin carrier partially broken away to show the details of construction; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the carrier; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 33, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 5 is the standard or base for the carrier on which a transverse brace 6 is secured by a screw 7. The brace is free to turn on the screw and has a limited movement thereupon to and from the base, the purpose of which will appear hereinafter. Brackets 8 are secured to each end of the brace to extend transversely thereof on each side of the brace. A slotted, substantially longitudinal bed 9 having a downwardly-extending border 10 is secured to the brackets, preferably by securing the border to said brackets. One end of the brackets S is higher than the other end, whereby the bed 9 is maintained on an incline with slots 11 running from the higher to the lower edge.

The upper part of the bed is covered by a substantially rectangular frame 12, whereby only the lower part of the bed remains ex.- posed. The frame 12 is provided with a swinging lid 13 whereby the frame 12 may be filled with pins. The lid 13 with the frame 12 and a portion of the bed within the frame constitute a pin receptacle wherein the pins are stored. The wall 14, adjacent the exposed part of the bed 9, has grooves 15 at the bed alining with the slots 11 in the bed, whereby the pins located within the slots of the bed within the receptacle can slide in said slot toward the exposed part of the bed.

The frame 12, placed to one end of the bed, and the brackets 8 secured to the transverse brace 6 substantially equidistant from the ends of the brackets, cause the center of gravity of the mass carried by the brace 6 to be exterior and on a line parallel to the axis of the screw 7. In consequence the brace 6 is normally maintained against the head of the screw, so that the edge of the brace nearer to the lower edge of the bed is away from the standard 5. See Fig. 2.

When a person wants to get a pin, he engages the head of the pin nearest to the edgeof the border at the exposed part of the bed. The said border edge is rounded to facilitate the engagement of the fingers with the head of the pin. The engagement of the fingers with the bed displaces the center of gravity of the mass on the brace causing the brace 6 to lie fiat on the base 5, (see the position of the device in dotted lines in Fig. 2) thereby shaking up the pins within the container and causing the pins which are in the slides within the container to travel to the exposed part. The border 10 about the bed prevents the points of the pins from coming into engagement with the fingers of a person taking pins out of the carrier, thus protecting the tips of the fingers from injury.

From the above description it will be seen that in my pin carrier the pin container may be said to have an inclined slotted bottom extending outwardly so as to allow the pins within the slots to move out to the exposed bottom part, from where they may be picked up. Means are provided to prevent injury to the fingers by the pin points; and the container is gravitationally operated to shake the pins every time pins are taken from the exposed bottom part. A spring 16 is preferably provided to cooperate with the force of gravity upon the movable part of the device.

I claim:

1. In combination, a pin container having a slotted bottom a portion of which extends.

out of the container, supporting means, and a bracket connecting loosely the container to the supporting means to maintain the bottom of the container inclined so that said bottom slopes toward the outwardly extending portion, the loose connection permitting the container to rock on the supporting means whereby the pins within the container are shaken.

2. A pin carrier comprising a pin container mounted to rock, said container having an inclined slotted bottom the lower portion of which extends out of the container, the slots in the bottom running with the incline.

3. In combination, a support, a pin container mounted to rock on the support, said container having a slotted sloping bottom the lower end of which bottom extends-out of the container, and yielding means for resisting the rocking of the container on the support.

4:. In combination, a support, a pin container having a slotted bottom a portion of which extends out of the container, and

tainer having a slotted bottom a portion of which extends out of the container, and means securing the bottom of the container to the bracket to maintain the bottom on an incline descencing toward the outwardlyextending portion of the bottom.

6. In combination, a support, a brace secured to the support to rock on the base transversely of the length of the brace, a bracket carried by said brace, a pin container having a slotted bottom a portion of which extends out of the container, and means securing the container to the bracket to maintain the bottom on an incline de scending toward the outwardly-extending portion of the bottom.

CHARLES P. VOGEL.

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